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A special type aortico-left ventricular tunnel with bicuspid aortic valve

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Aortico-left ventricular tunnel (ALVT) combined with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is an extremely rare congenital heart malformation. This article presents an adult case of a special type ALVT combined with BAV which was diagnosed by echocardiography and computed tomographic arteriography (CTA) then successfully performed surgery and cured.

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  1. Department of Ultrasound, Medical Imaging Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China

    Li-Li Chen, Chun-Quan Zhang & Liang-Geng Gong

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Chen, LL., Zhang, CQ. & Gong, LG. A special type aortico-left ventricular tunnel with bicuspid aortic valve. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 36, 55–57 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-019-01692-9

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